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Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
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"Blessed Unrest is exciting, compelling, and very important. It describes the growing unrest that I encounter around the world, the frustration and courage of those who dare to challenge the power of the political corporate world. Paul Hawken states eloquently all that I believe so passionately to be true - that there is inherent goodness at the heart of our humanity, that collectively we can - and are - changing the world. Please read and share Blessed Unrest, a celebration of the awakening of the human spirit. It will inspire and encourage millions more to take action." - Jane Goodall, UN Ambassador for Peace

A leading environmentalist and social activist's examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change. Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.?From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people's needs worldwide. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries. A culmination of Hawken's many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire and delight any and all who despair of the world's fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself. Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity's collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another. Blessed Unrest How the Largest Movement In the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming 352 pages, Hardcover, Viking Press New York

The Left Hand of God by Michael Lerner
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"A book that sends a clear call to everyone who cares about the future of America." -- Los Angeles Times

"Ambitious...serves the vital purpose of articulating a progressive alternative to the conservative flavor of religion that has dominated American politics for the past thirty years." -- Washington Post

The Left Hand of God addresses the central mystery of contemporary politics -- why so many Americans vote Republican when it is against their own economic interests. Providing an invaluable, timely, and blunt critique of the current state of faity in government, Michael Lerner challenges the Left to give up its deeply held fear of religion and goes on to show how the Democrats have misunderstood and alienated significant parts of their potential constituency. To succeed on a national level, Lerner argues, the Democratic Party must rethink its relationship to God, champion a progressive spiritual vision, reject the old bottom line the promotes the globalization of selfishness, and deal head-on with the very real spiritual crisis that many Americans experience every day.

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn
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"Thank you, Howard Zinn. Thank you for telling us what none of our leaders are willing to: the truth. And you tell it with such brilliance, such humanity. It is a personal honor to be able to say I am a better citizen because of you."
-- Michael Moore, documentary film director

A Power Governments Cannon Suppress is a major new collection of essays on American history, race, class, justice, and ordinary people who stand up to power. Zinn appraches the telling of U.S. history from an active, engaged point of view, drawing upon untold histories to comment on the most controversial issues facing us today: government dishonesty, terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss of our liberties, immigration, and the responsibility of the citizen to confront power for the common good. A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is an invaluable post-9 11-era addition to the themes that run through Howard Zinn's bestselling classic, A People's History of the United States